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November 2020

  2. I can haz tags?

    So Twyne now supports tags. That’s good. Bit by bit this is is becoming enough indiewebish for me to actually be able to use it. Can’t log in on the phone yet, nor upload photos and have their EXIF data read. But I think possibly I want to add a feed-reader before doing those things, and perhaps geotagging. I dare say it’d be easy to also now add some better POSH/microformats, but actually until I need to consume other sites’ HTML I don’t feel motivated to improve my own. Certainly higher on the todo list than that is a way to track old URLs (most of which currently lie broken, notably the feed ones which is pretty poor form on my part).

  3. Fremantle Harbour Classic

    The file that is attached to this post.

    SAVE THE DATE >> Saturday, 7th November 2020 | Club Marine Fremantle Harbour Classic

    FREE SPECTATOR EVENT // All boats entry by invitation only.

    The Fremantle Harbour comes alive when some of the State’s biggest racing boats put on a display of skill and daring maneuvers in the annual Club Marine Fremantle Harbour Classic.

    This amazing spectacle is the only sailing event of its kind and this year marks a celebration of 100 years of Fremantle Sailing Club. It is Perth’s best of the best invitational races. A ‘Pursuit Race’ in the confined Fremantle Inner Harbour showcasing exceptional sailing and excitement at every turn.

    THE HISTORY OF FREMANTLE HARBOUR CLASSIC RACE

    The event has great historical significance considering that the first yacht was introduced after World War II, back in 1946 – the first year of the traditional Challenge Race. The race was contested by entrants from both Fremantle Sailing Club and East Fremantle Yacht Club (formerly Melville Yacht Club). In December 1947, discussions took place between the two clubs and the Rockingham Progress Association which resulted in the birth of this fantastic event now known as the Fremantle Harbour Classic.

    A perpetual trophy made from the binnacle off the SS Sultan, the first steamship into Fremantle Harbour, was introduced and carries the names of the winners since 1991. The Port was the body of water Fremantle Sailing Club (FSC) called home previous to its current location. FSC is adjacent to the world famous Gage Roads where the 1987 America’s Cup was held. The race has both tradition and history.

    This dynamic event is free to the public. Spectators can take advantage of the bird’s eye views which are available from many quayside vantage points within the Fremantle Harbour. Come and see some of the greatest competitors this state has to offer.

  5. Election night special

    It’s the middle of the morning here, but that doesn’t matter. I’m attempting to add tags to Twyne (I’d link that, but still haven’t implemented hyperlinks in my Sam-flavoured Markdown). It’s going fine, it’s not a complicated thing to do really, but I’m bumping skulls with Doctrine ORM. I’ve used it before for a couple of projects, but not for a while, and I’d forgotten how frustrating it is to be poking at DQL or a query builder and trying to make it work — when the equivalent SQL is simple and easy! I wouldn’t mind if this was something complicated, but ordering by the count of a joined table shouldn’t take an hour to figure out.

  6. The Lost Cities of Geo

    Geocities was an online collection of metropolises, each with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests. The city metaphor helped make a whole new group of users understand the world wide web for the first time. At its peak, it was the third most popular destination on the internet, but it quickly fell out of fashion as the web became more commodified and professional. Before it shuttered, a few digital archivists scooped up as much data as possible before all that early internet experimentation could be deleted.

  7. Writing for the internet across a human lifetime

    WRITING FOR THE INTERNET ACROSS A HUMAN LIFETIME No more walled gardens, no more chains of complexity.

    Today I declare what once was, is again. Never again will I run another invocation of a static site generator or document renderer. 80 to 100 characters per line is and will continue to be maximum width of English documents. No longer do I pull from social networks, but they will pull from me.

    This is MY writing platform. Mine. Me. There is no way to censor or revoke my power. The Internet does not forget one byte, or one bit.

  8. It’s Monday arvo, the beer is good, and a general feeling prevails that the internet is what it was in 2002. At least so far as it’s possible to write code that makes stuff from databases. It’s the most fun.